Spot the lifebelt

Spot the lifebelt
Originally uploaded by waɪ.tiː

Once you've seen it (and it's very tiny), click on the photo and check your answer.

Train of thought:

Drivers on London Underground trains have started reading out quotes from thinkers and philosophers. The words of Jean-Paul Sartre and Mahatma Gandhi are being used in a bid to cheer up passengers.

I would suggest running the trains on time, making sure they're clean and not packing people in like sardines, would be a more effective way.

What scientists have for breakfast

Write down the different things these guys had for breakfast:-

Spot the bottle of beer!

Can you see the bottle of beer in this picture. When you think you have, click on the picture and check to see if you're right.

Oh and try counting how many balloons there are too. :-)

Spelling rules! What spelling rules?

That old spelling mantra, which generations of British schoolchildren have learnt for decades, "i before e, except after c," is under threat.

Under new British government guidance teachers have been told not to pass on the rule to students, because there are too many exceptions.

A document called "Support For Spelling" is being sent to thousands of primary schools, and it says the rule "is not worth teaching" because it doesn't account for words like 'sufficient,' 'veil' and 'their.'

Jack Bovill of the Spelling Society, which advocates simplified spelling, said he agreed with the decision, even though it is one of the few language rules that people remember.

Luckily the government doesn't run my website, so I'll carry on regardless.